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The rulers argued that public protests throughout the
region
were being orchestrated by Shia Iran, and were anti-Sunni and sectarian.
Even worse is the prospect of Syria falling into chaos, dragging Lebanon – and maybe the broader
region
– with it.
In addition, an extensive military operation in Darfur would not necessarily secure the
region
unless it also addressed the problems in the rest of Sudan.
The Shia are a special case, constituting 75% of the population in the Eastern Province, the Kingdom’s main oil-producing region, and identifying far more strongly with Shia across the border in Iraq than with the Saudi state.
But, since the war in Iraq in 2003 and the empowerment of Shia across the region, the Saudi regime faces sizeable, restless, and politically ambitious Shia populations in neighboring Gulf countries, especially Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as in Lebanon.
If there is a global downturn, any
region
that is long stocks and short bonds is going to get burned.
Does it mark a repudiation of United States foreign policy in the
region?
His victory marks a step forward in Latin America’s overall democratization, with positive long-term significance for economic and social development in the
region.
A large portion of the indigenous populations quickly succumbed to diseases and hardships brought by the European colonizers, but many survived, often in dominant numbers, as in Bolivia and much of the highlands of the Andes mountain
region.
Moreover, given the vast inequalities of power and wealth in Latin America, and with a large part of the population bereft of land and education, the
region
has long been vulnerable to populist politics and rebellions, with leaders promising quick gains for the dispossessed by seizing property from the elites.
For its part, Moldova has been struggling for two decades to assert control over the breakaway Transnistria
region.
Moreover, in February, the tiny autonomous
region
of Gagauzia, with its indigenous Turkic population, announced through a Russia-backed referendum that it has the right to secede if Moldova “loses its statehood.”
In September, Armenia, which has been locked in a conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the breakaway
region
of Nagorno-Karabakh for more than two decades, suddenly halted its integration talks with the EU and announced its intention to join Russia-led structures.
Its western Darfur
region
may eventually follow a similar route.
In per capita terms, mortality is also set to reach high levels in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus region, and other parts of Asia, such as South Korea, where aging populations are highly vulnerable to air pollution.
Putin has already decided to create an operational center of 13 groups in the Northern Caucasus
region
to coordinate the actions of the Defense and Emergencies Ministries.
Today, NATO continues to maintain a safe and secure environment for all of Kosovo’s people, and is helping the entire
region
progress along the path of Euro-Atlantic integration.
In fact, Trump’s behavior has heightened the sense of US hypocrisy, emboldening China further in its territorial and maritime revisionism in the Indo-Pacific
region.
Her active involvement since the age of eleven in campaigning for the rights of girls in her
region
to be educated was well known.
Indeed, to get into the Great Power maritime game, China needs Gwadar to redress its main weakness – the absence of a naval anchor in the Indian Ocean region, where it plans to have an important military presence.
China’s rise is fueling a wide range of territorial disputes in Asia and challenging America’s strategic leadership in the
region.
A century ago, Europe’s soon-to-be-victorious powers, concerned with dividing the
region
(then part of the Ottoman Empire), drew a “line in the sand” (as the author James Barr called it) stretching from the Mediterranean port of Acre in northern Palestine to Kirkuk in northern Iraq, on the border with Iran.
The secret agreement negotiated by Sykes and Picot subsequently led to the formation of states that served the great European colonial powers’ geopolitical interests, not the social, religious, and ethnic realities of the
region.
But America’s experience in Iraq following its 2003 intervention, and spreading turmoil there and elsewhere, led the US to withdraw its forces and reduce its involvement in the
region.
For those outside the region, the only hope is that no one within it can have a serious interest in that.
In fact, there are two lefts in the region: a modern, democratic, globalized and market-friendly left, found in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, parts of Central America, and, up to a point, in Peru; and a retrograde, populist, authoritarian, statist, and anti-American left, found in Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, and, to a lesser extent, in Argentina, Colombia, and Paraguay.
Although it has been essential in establishing their national identities, these countries’ sectarian divide – Saudi Arabia is the Arab world’s leading Sunni power, while Iran is majority Shia – has not always been an element of confrontation in the
region.
Doing so would benefit the entire
region.
The Sudanese government’s consent to the deployment of the hybrid United Nations/African Union mission, which aims to keep peace in the region, is of course a welcome development.
The moderate Sunni Gulf Arab emirates, suspicious of growing Shia ascendancy and of Iranian irredentism in the region, have stopped propping up Syria’s economy due to its alliance with the ayatollahs of Iran.
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